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Basic Tastes

Basic Tastes: Professional coffee tasters (Cuppers) use a term to describe flavors detected by the tongue –  Basic tastes and flavors detected through the nose – secondary taste (secondary tastes). The essential tastes of Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, and Umami are perceived by the "taste buds" located on our tongues, each containing between 50 and 100 taste cells and each cell. Taste has receptors. However, in the coffee-tasting practice environment, there are only four primary flavors: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, which are …